Hello=)

I hope see you soon..

A Thank You Note

Dear Learners,

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you all for being
excellent participants in my class. It was a pleasure to teach you
all. I admire your enthusiasm in learning and your positive attitude
towards your course.

Learning is never a finished product. In fact learning is a lifelong
process. Don't stop here. There is so much more you can achieve and
there are so many meaningful things to learn. When you believe in
yourself and you make your best effort and you focus on your growth,
not your scores, you will make excellent progress.

Always be postive about your learning. Make realistic expectations.
Make sure you have time to reflect on your learning, so then you
always evaluate your own learning. Be responsible and autonomous
learners. In many ways I have given you the chance to be independant,
responsible and reflective learners throughout the course. I hope it
was a meaningful and inspiring experience for all of you.

If you want to achieve fluency in English, then avoid translating too
much. Continue your effort to try to think in English as you produce
the language. Again it is not easy, but it will get easier the more
you do it. It's just like any other thing in the world. The first time
is always the most difficult part. But once you try, the following
steps will get easier. So, try to break the habit of depending on the
translation and/or electronic dictionaries.

Making mistakes is part of learning process, so don't be afraid of
making them. Be positive about it, because we can always learn from
the mistakes. It should not be used to judge yourself or other people.
So keep on trying to practice and use the language in various contexts.

So continue your journey and set realistic and meaningful goals
everytime, learn and keep learning and always spare time to do some reflection.

Again thank you very much for being wonderful. I am sure I will see
you around. Take care. Happy holiday!


Stay in touch,

Iwan

PS. Remember that everyone is smart. We are smart in our own and unique ways. Appreciate your strengths and use them to accelerate; but at the same time try to stretch, working on your weaknesses. Remember the story of 3 white balls and 1 black ball?

=(

Im so sad=( ,
I have just finished English class and already I missed you
guys ant Iwan tooooooo!=(
But I hope we still keep in touch=)

Good luck to you on final test=)

Having a BBQ PARTY in New Hampshire!

　The most impressive thing in United States for me is having a BBQ PARTY in New Hampshire last Summer.　My friend is living in New Hampshire, and this was the first time for us to have the BBQ in U.S.



　Because there are many korean grocery stores near my apartment, and Korean beef is good for BBQ, we bought many korean beefbefore departed New Jersey. On the way to New Hampshire,　we stopped at the service area and bought some sweet corns at the farmer's market. 　We also stopped at Boston to buy some seafood at the china town. We bought big living lobsters, clams, and oysters at the china town.










　After arriving at my friend's house in New Hampshire, we started toprepare for the BBQ Party. We cut the vegetables, opened shells of the oysters and marinated the beef, and so on. But, it was a little difficult to cut the living whole lobsters!










　After prepareing, we baked many things like lobsters, beef, clams, oysters, corns, and Japanese rice balls. Because we baked Japanese rice balls and Korean style beef, the american neighbor children came and looked at us, they must have been very interested in our BBQ.


　There was a big garden in my friend's apartment, We enjoyed having the BBQ Party there. The garden was so beautiful, and the baked foods were very delicious. It was a lot of fun to have the BBQ party, we ate & drunk so much, and had a very good time!

my show and tell

Hi, everyone. I'd like to tell about ballet again because I could get some photos.

1, Romantic ballet & Classical ballet




This is me+_+ My roll was "Giselle".
My wearing like this long skirt tutu is called "Romantic tutu".
In 1830s, the ballerina wore a long skirt tutu with a fitted corset and soft net skirts ending below the knee. Her hair was parted in the middle, draped over the ears, and make a bun(kinda chignon) at the bottom of the head.






This is a classical tutu. I acted a fairy in the "sleeping beauty".
Early in the 20th century, as he dance steps became more difficult and daring, so ballerinas began wearing
the classical tutu,with short fluffy skirts of many layers which enhanced steps.

2. point shoues


These shoes are tools to stand on only toes.
By these point shoeses, we can show more elastic and airly.
They are made so hard, especially a part of toe and sole, that we can stand on the point of my toes. It is made of leather, burlap, glue and and satin.
3, Marie Taglioni was one of the first ballerinas to stand on the tips of her toes by point shoes. The audience could look as if she were floating. Ballet shoes in those days were soft, so standing on point was very difficult. Her father, who was also her teacher, invented exercise to strengthen her legs and feet.

4, Finally, I itold about"Swan Lake". But I omit it. Because I think it is a little long.
Swan Lake is one of the favorite stage for me. It is very beautiful not only dancers but also music!!

smalls

I took a this picture in smalls.


The smalls is a nice jazzclub in Greenwich village.


I went to there last saturday with my husband.


Last saturday was our 12th anniversary since we've met.


We talked about our first meeting and listened some jazz music.


I really love this place. Also, I'd like to recommend this place for my friends.

(<--my husband and me *-*) You can check here about some jazzclub. www.fatcatjazz.com (smalls)
www.bluenote.net. (blue note)
www.villagevanguard.net. (The village vanguard)

Cheers! A Japanese traditional celebration

In Japan, we use very big barrel of
japanese rice wine (SAKE) when we
celebrate something like wedding party.

First of all, the person who is celebrated
open a cover of a barrel by a wooden hammer.

Then they treat participants of a party to
the SAKE.








This is a cup of a japanese celebration.
The cup made from wood. We use this
when we toast.
This is japanese traditional celebration
style.

I took these photos at my friends wedding
party in Japan.

" Cheers!"

My presentation, in Tomoko's case

THE NIAGARA FALLS

I’d like to talk about the Niagara Falls.
I have been there two times in summer and in winter.
My first impression of the Niagara Falls was breathtaking.
I was surprised with the beauty of nature.
The view of the Niagara Falls in winter was different from that in summer.
How do you feel?
Can you see the difference?
It seems that the downriver from the basin of the falls almost frozen over in this picture.
But apparently, it seemed that the only surface of the downriver has frozen, and the water under the frozen surface has flowed down.
I thought so. I am not sure.
There again, the upper river hasn’t frozen over, but the large masses of ice were sometimes flowing into the basin of the falls.
It means the falls were flowing all the time.

The next one is an interesting picture.
The mist from the Niagara Falls routinely coats nearby trees and railing with ice.
The coated ice was so hard. I was interested in it.
I was gazing in wonder at the coated trees and railing with ice.

Now I sometimes think back on these trips.
They were so great experience for me.
I had no idea that I would see such beautiful and fantastic landscape in my life. Furthermore, winter one was very lucky because the Niagara Falls are not always frozen throughout winter but only for several days.
The time I went to the Niagara Falls in winter was good timing

Finally, I’d like to introduce these pictures to you.
All pictures were taken by my husband.
This picture was compounded eight pictures, and that one too.
So I can make you see the whole Niagara Falls in the pictures.
My thanks go to my husband, and thank you very much for your kind attention.

Our 'English Team'=)

I hope you will enjoy seeing this pictures,
and next time I will take a picture with all of us!!=))

SPRING

Spring is one of the four seasons of the year. It follows Winter and comes before Summer.

This is one of the most beautiful seasons for many people. It begins on March 21 and ends on June 21.

The Spring is the time when nature shows its grand beauty. It is time to wear confortable clothes, for vacations, weddings and other kinds of ceremonies.

Spring is the greatest time of the year for me.

Written by: CLAUDIA GRADAILLE

Great landscape!

Last week, I went snowbording to Whisler mountain near

Vancouver,Canada.

Going Snowbording in Whisler was my dream. My dreams come true!

The snow condelition is wonderful. I had a very happy time there.

Wonderful TOKYO DAY!

Many people visited to
shines on New Year's day
in Japan.

This photo is a famous
shrine " SUITENGU" in
Tokyo, Japan.

I was born near there
about thirty years ago.






This time I came back to Japan to extend my US-VISA.
After US embassy's interview, I visited to "SUITENGU".　
I prayed to god that I could have a happy year.





After praying, I picked
a fortune slip, which
predicted "very good fortune"　
for me!

I'm very lucky and I'll
have a wonderful year!

My background

I was born in Nagasaki prefecture in Japan.I had grown up in Nagasaki before I entered in junior college of nursing.
When I was young,I had six people in family,grandfather,grandmother,father,mother,younger brother and me.I was almost taken care of by nursery school teacher and grandmother from nine-month-old,because my parents have worked each other every day.
After I graduated from high school,I moved to Fukuoka to study a nursing course alone.
I started to work in national hospital as a nurse,when I was 21 years old.
My experience is to take care of many terminal cancer patients in the otolaryngology(Ear, Nose, and Throat)ward and the infants having a congenital or non-congenital heart disease.
WhenI met my husband in hospital first,and after 2 years we got married.It is now 12 years since I was married him. Now I have two daughtrers, almost ten and eight. They are very precious to us.

Memory

My family went shopping yesterday at Garden State Mall in NJ.

It was nice temperature, we enjoyed and bought some staffs.

I found cute bear sewn 2007 on its right foot. My son gtraduates Hight school in the end of June.

I bought it for him as a memorable. Our CEP class end three weeks later.I want to have some memorable things until then. It is hard to say good-by. I miss you very much.